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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Obama Declares an Amnesty War

By Alan
Caruba

The same
mindset that could conspire to foist ObamaCare on Americans by deception is at
work to do the same thing with an unconstitutional, unilateral announcement of
amnesty for millions of illegal—oops, “undocumented”—aliens living in America.

What is
amazing about this is that it was announced the day after the midterm election
when Obama and the Democratic Party had suffered a huge rejection. I suppose when
you believe, as Obama apparently does, that he is right when everyone else is
telling him he’s wrong, moving ahead on amnesty now rather than waiting to work
on legislation with the new Congress makes sense to him.

Only it
does not make sense. Causing a constitutional crisis never makes sense.

At this
point I think it is useless to try to get inside Obama’s mind regarding his
actions. It’s like trying to understand the logic of a six-year-old. He does
what he wants to do simply because he wants to do it. He ignores reality if it
disagrees with his opinion about anything.

We all
have two more years of this arrogance.

The voters
have spoken and rather dramatically. As we get closer to Obama’s executive order it's good to see that Republican leaders are sounding more combative.

What
exactly can or will the presumptive Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, do? What
will John Boehner, House Majority Leader, do? They have, in fact, relatively
few options. They dare not and do not want to shut down the government. They
will not impeach Obama. They can, we’re told, defund aspects of an amnesty executive
order. Ultimately, they are likely to fall back on a law suit against the White
House based on the constitutional division of powers.

The midterrm elections showed us that the
lies the Democrats told failed.

The effort
to paint the Republican Party as obstructionists failed. The real
obstructionist was and is Harry Reid who blocked more than three hundred
bi-partisan and Republican pieces of House legislation from being debated or
voted upon in the Senate. Neither he, nor any other Majority Leader should have
that much power. The Senate needs its role for debate restored.

The claim that the Republican Party was waging “a war on women” or was racist was
absurd.The midterms saw any number of
Republican women elected to office and African-American GOP candidates made
history when they won. It’s no longer the Party of “old white men”, but a largely white
component of all ages voted heavily in the midterms for those younger, diverse
winners.

The
Republican Party could not be in a stronger, better position than currently. Rarely
mentioned is that what put them there is the Tea Party movement; a number of Congressional members elected by the movement are driving the response to Obama’s amnesty idiocy.

Six
members, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Pat
Roberts (R-Kansas), Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and David Vitter (R-Louisiana)
made it clear to Sen. Reid that “This will create a constitutional crisis that
demands action by Congress to restore the separation of powers.”The only thing Republican Senators are
amenable to at this point is strengthening border security. They will not put forth any
immigration legislation until after they take power in the Senate in January.

So,
naturally, Obama wants them to do something now.

Only an
idiot would say, as he did, that he “heard” what the voters said and then add
he also heard what those “who did not vote” had to say. The only thing that
matters in an election is who got elected and why. Hearing what voters who
stayed home had to say is delusional.

Voters were soangered by the sheer incompetence of Obama
and Sen. Harry Reid’s gridlock in Congress that they voted in a whole batch of
new Senators and House members. Those they chose were predominantly
conservative Republicans and that tells you a lot about the next two years
until Obama is gone.

Obama has never liked Congress. He seems to resent having
to share governing power with it. He about to launch an amnesty war as a way of
acting out his resentment.

At this point, the Republicans in Congress know who they
are dealing with and are in no mood for a compromise, nor expect one. Remember,
though, it is the Republicans who are the grownups and what we are likely to
see in the months ahead will be a number of reform measures and amnesty will be
among them. Obama will be blocked on any number of other efforts that will harm
the nation and the world.

After we celebrate New Year’s day the 2016 presidential campaigns will begin in earnest. The first straw vote in
Ames, Iowa will take place in nine months!

Let Barack Obama have his amnesty war.

There is no lamer duck than the President. Whenever he
speaks these days all you can hear is quack, quack, quack.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.